Bernard Faure is a leading Japanologist of international recognition. He currently holds the Kao Chair of Japanese Religion at Columbia University.

He is the author of several books in French and English, such as The Rhetoric of Immediacy; Chan Insights and Oversights; Bouddhist sexualities; Visions of Power; The Red Thread; Bouddhismes; The Power of Denial; Double Exposure and Bouddhisme et violence.

Topics of Buddhism is his first book translated into Spanish.